Children: A Blessing

And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. …

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.

Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.